Hello Mark2457:
My InReach is not a mini, so your device might be better than mine. I basically found that while ny InReach would record "tracks" independent of its "Tracking Function", access to those logs was obtuse. Thus I found it more efficient to log tracks on my phone via it's internal GPS and any of several applications that will accomplish that.
Some of the terminology that could be obscuring InReach functionality might be a difference between Garmin's definition of "Tracking" versus "Logging". In Garminspeak "Tracking" is sending waypoints via satellite signal to Garmin's mapping interface so that folks you choose can see where you have been. While those Garminspeak "Tracks" could be accessed and downloaded into non Garminspeak tracks they aren't as suitable as a Garminspeak "log".
Garminspeak "logs" are more similar to what most of us think of as "tracks" - strings of points recorded by our GPS units (including GPS enabled phones, watches, etc). When we download those strings of points and allow software to connect them with lines we get a nice "track" of where we were. Several years ago I wished to reduce the equipment I was to carry on a long packraft/backpacking trip in the Grand Canyon and thought I'd use my InReach for both communications and Garminspeak "logging" (or "tracking" in regular GPS speak). I gave up when I couldn't find a practical way to get those logs into other applications I was using on the trip without access to Internet to get the logs from Garmin.
At that time, had I been satisfied with Earthmate as a mapping application, I would have had access to those logs (tracks) within Earthmate, but not other applications. I don't know if that situation has changed in the intervening years or not.
Howard Snell